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Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Properly Prepping Your Bar for the Holiday Rush

Modern Restaurant Management

The increased challenges and stress of the holiday season often reveal pinch points in bar and restaurant operations. The holidays bring an increase in beverage inventory, particularly kegged inventory for bars and restaurants centered around draft programs. Manage and Optimize Your Increased Holiday Inventory.

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32 Winter Bar Promotions with No Chill

Buzztime Business

It may be freezing outside, but things are about to heat up at your bar. These 32 winter bar promotions give customers a reason to get out of their PJs and into your place for good times…all winter long. Why not get competitive with your winter bar promotions and turn open mic night into a judged competition? Indoor corn hole.

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Be Prepared: Cocktail and Beverage Trends for Events

Modern Restaurant Management

In order to pull off successful events and cater to their clients’ needs, event planners and their bar staff. Bring sustainability to the bar by using whatever ingredients are already on-hand in the kitchen as garnishes or create daily drink specials based on them. need to be in the know with all the upcoming trends. Even better?

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CHEFS – ARE YOU READY FOR WINTER

Culinary Cues

More than anything else, when I was in restaurant kitchens I looked forward to planning and testing the next set of menu changes. A stale menu is not cost effective, ignorant of quality issues with ingredients, uninspiring for employees, and just plain boring. Winter is, by far my favorite season to plan menus.

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Top Cocktail and Wine Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Over the course of 111 days, Brian Masilionis, Director, On-Premise Commercial Strategy & National Accounts for Southern Glazer’s, led a team of its industry-leading mixologists to sample more than 400 drinks in 83 restaurants, bars and hotels, compiling their insights to discover emerging cocktail and wine trends across the U.S.

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META BOFINGER’S RESTAURANT SECRET

Culinary Cues

The conversation evolved around local news and gossip, and alcoholic beverages were reserved for bars scattered throughout the community. Menu items were simple and very much in line with homestyle cooking: roast beef, meatloaf, fried chicken, roast turkey, macaroni and cheese, pasta, and meatballs, etc.

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The Top 50 New York City Rooftop Bars

Restaurant Clicks

When looking at rooftop bars, my first criteria was the food. There are plenty of NYC rooftop bars, but a roof bar is essentially pointless if your highrise is situated around three other, taller highrises. Best Rooftop Bars in NYC. Carmellini’s menu at Westlight is inspired by street food from across the globe.

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